Exegesis and Theology » Mark http://www.exegesisandtheology.com Writings about Exegesis and Theology Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:21:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Banquet of the Shepherd-King http://www.exegesisandtheology.com/2010/01/27/the-banquet-of-the-shepherd-king/ http://www.exegesisandtheology.com/2010/01/27/the-banquet-of-the-shepherd-king/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:19:23 +0000 Brian http://www.exegesisandtheology.com/2010/01/27/the-banquet-of-the-shepherd-king/ Mark follows the bloody birthday banquet of Herod Antipas with a feast created by Jesus out of compassion.

We are told that Jesus looked at the crowd he fed “as sheep not having a shepherd” (Mark 6:34). In the Old Testament the shepherd imagery is often used of kings.

In Herod Israel had a rapacious king who in drunken banquets lusted after his step-daughter and ordered righteous prophets to be beheaded. But Jesus is the good shepherd king who has compassion on his people by feeding them with food that satisfies.

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